The Arizona Republic

In backing Ward, Gosar again taps ‘Dental ESP’

- EJ Montini Columnist

Rep. Paul Gosar once again tapped into his Dental ESP (a self-proclaimed ability to read people, owing to his ability to perform root canals), this time in order to attack Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, along with Republican senatorial candidate Rep. Martha McSally.

All in order to support “Chemtrail” Kelli Ward for the Senate.

Gosar issued a statement reading, in part, “We cannot afford another establishm­ent patsy who promises one thing and votes differentl­y. Arizona has suffered for years with a lackluster Senate delegation that promised one thing during the election and did another back in D.C. — Kelli is not like that.”

No. She’s not. She’s way worse. Ward is a former Arizona lawmaker and Gosar-like conspiracy freak who once held a town hall to discuss the debunked “chemtrails” conspiracy theory of government airplanes spraying dangerous chemicals to change the weather or for more sinister motives.

As for that “lackluster Senate delegation” comment, it isn’t the first time Gosar, the Orthodonti­c Kreskin, took a shot at McCain. Or even at his wife.

A while back, Gosar went out of his way to say on Twitter that Cindy McCain was not qualified to hold McCain’s seat, should he vacate it, claiming (by way of his psychic powers, I suppose) that the idea was floated by Gov. Doug Ducey’s team. They denied it.

Gosar tweeted:

@dougducey is wrong @bennett arizona is right. It is a matter of public policy. Gov. Ducey or team floated the name. We want the most qualified for Senate. Cindy McCain is not. I reject leftist tactics of attacking the person and urge Ducey to stand down.

McCain’s longtime writing collaborat­or, Mark Salter, pointed out that McCain’s seat has not been vacated and called Gosar a “dumbass.”

This perhaps explains his support for Ward.

Gosar’s special powers tell him Ward is not the type of politician to promise one thing and do another.

Gosar’s statement says, “Her (Ward’s) opponent, Martha McSally, is. In my time working with Martha, I found her, though likable personally, to be very inconsiste­nt politicall­y. None of us can count on Martha keeping a campaign promise as she will fall for whatever the D.C. elite tells her to do at the time. I have seen that firsthand.”

However, while the Cavity-Filling Clairvoyan­t claims to know what McSally would do should she become a U.S. senator, he doesn’t seem to be concerned one bit with what Ward already has done.

Like when she spoke to a conspiracy-prone physicians group that be-

lieves Medicare and Medicaid should not exist and are, in fact, “evil.”

Or when she cozied up to Steve Bannon, the banished guru of President Donald Trump, or to Sebastian Gorka, another Trump guru who supposedly had ties to a quasi-Nazi Hungarian national group and who was banned from the White House grounds.

Or when she wrote on her campaign website, “John McCain is ‘directly responsibl­e’ for the rise of ISIS.”

Um ... no.

Or when Ward effusively praised Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican shamed into a general-election loss for the Senate after nine women came forward with accusation­s of sexual misconduct, several saying the incidents occurred when they were minors.

After Moore’s primary-election win, Ward wrote, “I want to happily congratula­te Judge Roy Moore on his decisive victory tonight. I was proud to endorse Judge Moore’s campaign and, like millions of other conservati­ves across the nation, feel inspired and motivated by his success.”

A woman inspired and motivated by Moore? This is who Gosar believes would be better than “lackluster” McCain and Flake?

It doesn’t take a mentalist to know that I’m thinking.

Yeah.

What Mark Salter said.

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